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Topic: Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) license plates
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Go4Launch
Member Posts: 380
From: Bethesda, MD
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 06-21-2011 11:51 AM
   
Boeing released stickers and other items depicting "license plates" for the three Apollo lunar roving vehicles; yet photos don't seem to show any license plates on the vehicles themselves. So was the concept of an actual plate just fantasy on Boeing's part? |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 236
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 06-26-2011 06:23 PM
Am guessing that those "license plates" were just for fun  and never intended to go to the moon. |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 288
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 06-26-2011 08:09 PM
Dave Scott took ~ 15 of them with him to the Moon. He carried them with him at all times that he was on the lunar surface. |
FullThrottle
Member Posts: 79
From: Seattle, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 06-28-2011 08:10 AM
What does a lunar rover license plate look like?! All these years and I never knew or realized it actually had a license plate! Was it also made by prisoners? |
Rusty B
Member Posts: 187
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 06-28-2011 01:54 PM
A personalized plate?NASA (Not All Stamps Authorized)  |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1445
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 06-28-2011 03:11 PM
This was a souvenir reproduction that Boeing distributed back in 1971.The small print at the bottom reads, "Replica of the Apollo 15 License Plate for the First Manned Lunar Roving Vehicle."  |
lspooz
Member Posts: 25
From: Greensboro NC USA
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted 11-20-2012 10:27 PM
Okay, I've followed the RR Auction for one of Dave Scott's original 15 lunar rover license plates but with more than a week left the next bid is over $7200... Not bad for a flown/EVA artifact.While I'd love to win this, with the cost approaching a significant fraction of the cost of my own electric vehicle (LEAF) I'll probably have to pass. My question is: have any of these 15 been sold before? Any others out there [perhaps I should post as WTB]? Or should I contact Dave Scott directly? |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 288
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 11-20-2012 11:48 PM
Here's a link to when, and for how much, various of these have gone for... |
lspooz
Member Posts: 25
From: Greensboro NC USA
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted 11-21-2012 07:19 AM
Thanks for the link - that actually makes me feel better since the plate will sell for a price SO FAR out of my reach [rather than just barely out-of-budget] that it won't be so tantalizing! |
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